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Name: Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banana Fanna Lay Onna Pile Of Origami the Third. But you can call me Dot.
Contact Information: NO! You'll sell my contact information to spam companies, won't you?! Don't lie. :P
Timezone: This one.
RP Experience: NONE WHATSOEVER. AT ALL. EVER. FIRST GAME. DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT RP MEANS.
Where did you hear about us? Your mom.

Name: Charles Donovan Richardson
Age & Birthdate: 52; 15 December, 1956
Bloodline: Muggle / squib: his mum is a halfblood witch, his father a muggle, his sister a witch, and he has no magical powers to speak of. He's also half English and half Irish, so in all, he's basically just a mutt.
Sexuality: Straight
Marital Status: Divorced (twice)
Former House & School: Kenmare Primary School ('69); Kenmare Secondary School ('75); B.A. in Mathematics and Psychology (TSM) from Trinity College, Dublin ('79); P.Grad.Dip in Education (Secondary Teaching) from Trinity College, Dublin ('80)

Occupation: Professor of Maths at Remus Lupin Academy
How are they qualified? Degrees in mathematics and education, plus nearly three decades' worth of teaching maths at Kenmare Secondary School.
How did they get involved in the school? He got into education in the first place because there's not much else to do with a mathematics degree if you want to make any money at all. His sister heard about the RLA and knew that Charles had always wanted to go to a magical school, so she told him about it, he applied, and the rest (as they say) is history.
If a professor, what is their demeanor as a professor? He's a tough professor. He doesn't accept any excuses for late or incomplete work, and he's a tough grader. He is, however, a bit more sympathetic to the non-wizard students.

Personality: When most people in the wizarding world think of "purists," they think the Malfoys, Lestranges, Blacks, You-Know-Who. Basically, you think of people who think that having a long bloodline of magic makes you better than everyone else. Charles is, in a way, the exact opposite of these people: he doesn't believe that magic makes you better, he believes that a lack of magic makes you better. Or, rather, having magic makes you lazy. Charles firmly believes that those who have magic have it easier than those who don't, so they never really learn the value of hard work, of earning everything you have: when you can't just make things appear out of thin air or turn into something else, you tend to value it more. Yes, his car might be a hunk of junk that's held together by rust spots, but he EARNED it: he worked hard and saved up the money to buy it and pay for petrol and everything. Some of these feelings come from the simple fact of jealousy: his sister inherited their witch mother's magical skills, while he took after his muggle father, so he had to grow up around magic without being able to use any of it himself.

One thing that Charles never really wanted to be was like his father: an unquestionable nerd (he always wondered how on earth his father managed to woo such a self-confident woman as his mother). While, yes, Charles was quite fond of all things related to math, he certainly didn't want to be labelled a geek, nerd, loser. So, while he did dedicate quite a bit of time to his studies, and he did major in mathematics in university, he also spent a lot of time becoming a ladies' man, a love-em-and-leave-em type. He dated a lot of girls throughout secondary school and university, always leaving them before things got boring or they started talking commitment (or after he got what he wanted out of them). Oh, sure, his flings have gotten him into trouble (generally with fathers or older brothers; most notably when he was forced into his second marriage by an irate father when one of his flings claimed pregnancy), but he certainly has no inclination to change his philandering ways.

Charles is also a man of a few vices, cigarettes and alcohol mainly. He's not quite a chain smoker, more of a pack-a-day kind of guy. Before work, after work, anytime he can get in a smoke break. Not to mention a good smoke after a good shag. Likewise, while not quite an alcoholic (alcoholics go to meetings), Charles does enjoy a good drink now and then, with quite a bit of frequency. Yes, he knows he oughtn't drink at school (and he doesn't), but he is rather fond of tying one on in the evenings, particularly if he's out on the prowl. He also has a certain fondness for a good game of poker (especially if women are involved, in which case he rather enjoys the strip variety), and he's not exactly above bluffing and / or cheating to reach the desired outcome.

Personal History:

• Colin Stewart Richardson: Father; b. 5 December, 1924; muggle; doctor
  
• Deirdre Ciara Richardson (née Sullivan): Mother; b. 19 April, 1934; halfblood witch; dressmaker; Ravenclaw 1952
  
• Eden Bailey Spencer (née Richardson): Sister; b. 22 October, 1960; halfblood witch; potionere / owner of Spencer Apothecaries; Ravenclaw 1979
  
• Raymond Lucas Spencer: Brother-in-law; b. 6 September, 1960; d. 19 September, 1997; muggleborn wizard; was potionere / co-owner of Spencer Apothecaries; Gryffindor 1979
  
• Raymond Lucas Spencer, Jr.: Nephew; b. 30 April, 1984; halfblood wizard; journalist; Ravenclaw 2002
  
• Lainey Deirdre Spencer: Niece; b. 1 June, 1989; halfblood witch; Healer trainee; Hufflepuff 2007
  
  
• Ex-Wife #1: Jeanne Wills; b. 7 July, 1957; muggle
  
• Ex-Wife #2: Anne Bernard; b. 26 February, 1963; muggle

Colin Richardson was born and raised in Jolly Old London, but upon becoming a doctor, he promptly decided that he needed to expand his horizons beyond London, even beyond England. So he packed up and moved to Kenmare, Ireland, where he managed to get a position in a small clinic, thanks to references from his former professors. It was at this clinic (or, rather, directly outside of it) that he first met Deirdre Sullivan.

It was an icy day in January of 1953, and Colin had stepped outside for a smoke when he happened to see a pretty young woman slip on the ice and go down hard. True to his medical training, Colin was immediately crouching at her side, helping her up and into the clinic to take a look at her. She wasn't too hurt, merely a sprained wrist, which Colin wrapped in a bandage and jokingly informed her that there were easier ways than falling to apply ice to the injury.

The young woman thanked him, paid for his services, and was gone with a sweep of her black cloak, promising that she would be more careful on the ice. Colin had mostly forgotten about the girl when, a month later, she was thrown into his path again, this time at a small café down the street from the clinic. Colin re-introduced himself to her, and found out her name; he then proceeded to ask her out for dinner, which she accepted.

After a year of dating, Colin proposed to Dierdre in February of 1954, and they were married that summer. In the year and a half that they had known each other, Colin always knew that there was something different about Dierdre, but she never told him the truth: she was a witch.

In December of 1956, their first child was born, a son whom they named Charles. Dierdre knew that, sooner or later, she would have to tell Colin that she was a witch, since it was likely that Charles and any other children that they might have would also be magical. However, Charles was showing no signs of magic, even after his sister Eden was born in October of 1960. In early 1964, Dierdre finally had to tell Colin (and seven-year-old Charles, who still had not shown any signs of magic) when three-year-old Eden levitated her blocks while playing. It took Colin a while to adjust to the idea, but he was surprisingly okay with the fact that not only was his wife a witch, but she had also been lying to him about it for eleven years.

Charles immediately became jealous of his little sister. He wanted to do magic, too! He tried everything he could think of to do magic, but nothing he tried worked, while his little sister was doing all sorts of magic tricks effortlessly. His earlier closeness to and overprotectiveness of his little sister was replaced by intense jealousy. His jealousy only expanded when, in the summer of 1972, an owl came with a letter for Eden, inviting her to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Dierdre had told both of the children (and Colin) all about the school, and Charles had desperately wanted to go; when the summer of 1968 came and went without a letter for him, though, he began hoping that Eden wouldn't get to go, either.

But go off to Hogwarts Eden did, leaving Charles behind in Kenmare to attend the regular, muggle schools. He couldn't even take much comfort in the fact that his father was a muggle, too, because Charles saw his father as a hopeless geek and he didn't want to be like him. He was, however, quite gifted at mathematics, so when he finished secondary school in 1975, he left Kenmare behind to attend Trinity College, Dublin, pursuing a double degree in mathematics and psychology.

It was at Trinity College that Charles met Jeanne Wills. She was in many of the same courses as he was, as she was also majoring in psychology. At the end of their second year, while they were both celebrating the end of end-of-term exams by getting completely wasted, they ended up getting married. Charles had never intended to get married (he had always been more of a love-em-and-leave-em type, dating many girls throughout secondary school and university), and he certainly had no plans to remain faithful to his sudden wife, so he sought an annullment. Jeanne, on the other hand, did want to be married, but to someone who loved her and would be faithful to her, not someone like Charles, so the dissolution of their brief marriage was amicable.

His second marriage, in 1982, lasted slightly longer and was infinitely more dramatic: full of yelling matches and things being thrown about. Charles married Anne Bernard because she thought she was pregnant, and it was a shotgun wedding in every sense of the word. When Anne turned out not to be pregnant, the arguments started, about everything from Anne faking a pregnancy in order to marry Charles, to Charles sleeping around with other women. Once their marriage was finally over, Charles decided that marriage certainly wasn't for him: it only complicated things and was too monogamous for him.

Career-wise, Charles decided to get a graduate degree in education, so that he could teach mathematics. After earning his degree, he gained a position as a maths teacher at his old secondary school in Kenmare, a position that he held for twenty-seven years, until his sister informed him of an open position for a maths teacher at a relatively new school: the Remus Lupin Academy. She had remembered that her brother had always been jealous of her for attending Hogwarts, and that he wanted to go, so she thought that he would get a kick out of teaching at a school that took in kids like him, squibs (though she didn't come out and directly say that to him), as well as other beings who aren't wizards. Charles applied, and he got the position starting in the 2008-2009 school year.

PB: Jeremy Irons (picture)
Character Journal: not_chuck | not_chuck
Blurb: Having always wanted to attend a wizarding school, working at the RLA is something of a dream come true for Charles (not that he would ever admit it). He might not be the best role model for the kids, but he is a great teacher who really cares about his subject material and wants his students to do their best. Just don't expect him to buy your "the dog ate my homework" excuses.

Third Person Sample: Awww, mommy, do I have to?